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get well

get well verb: to recover from an illness or injury.

Verb

get well (third-person singular simple present gets well, present participle getting well, simple past got well, past participle (UK) got well or (US) gotten well)

  1. (idiomatic) To recover from an illness or injury.
  2. (idiomatic) To recover from financial straits.
    • With a single blockbuster, the studio got well.

Forms of get well

third-person singular presentgets well
present participlegetting well
pastgot well
past participle UKgot well
past participle USgotten well

Words formed from get well

Questions about get well

What does get well mean?
Get well means to recover from an illness or injury.
What part of speech is get well?
Get well is a verb.
What is the past tense of get well?
The past tense of get well is got well.

Words near get well in the dictionary

  1. get up the yard
  2. get up to
  3. get up with the chickens
  4. get used
  5. get wasted
  6. get well
  7. get well soon
  8. get wet
  9. get what one asked for
  10. get what's coming to one
  11. get wind

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